On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Enis Söztutar <enis....@gmail.com> wrote:
> How will we effectively communicate that this release can eat your computer > (developer release)? Any pointers from the last 0.89 attempt? > Since Stack figured out the hadoop1, hadoop2 suffix business, how about adding "-eats-your-data" to the release artifacts? ... ;) On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari <jean-m...@spaggiari.org > > wrote: > > > This is huge! > > > > Just looking at the JIRAs is staggering. There is many things I'm > > eager to see on a production release. > > > > Thanks for this develper release! > > > > JM > > > > 2013/4/1 Stack <st...@duboce.net>: > > > Here is our first 0.95.0 release candidate. Should we put this out as > > > 0.95.0? > > > > > > The 0.95.x series of releases are designated "developer releases", a > type > > > of release we have done in the past -- see the 0.89.x series -- where > we > > > let out 'raw', barely-tested product so developers and those generally > > > interested can get some early exposure to what our next stable release > to > > > follow 0.94.x will look like. Putting out these 'rough cuts' also > helps > > to > > > get the feedback started earlier while the release is still baking. > > > > > > These "developer release" come with no guarantees. We make no > > > promises that the next release will be compatible with this one or even > > that > > > you will be able to preserve data across the update (This is at an > > extreme, > > > and highly unlikely, but could be the case). No work has been done to > > make > > > it so you can migrate from 0.94.x HBase. > > > > > > In spite of all the caveats above, we still need to vote. Remember, > the > > bar > > > is intentionally set lower on these "developer releases"; it will have > > to be > > > something pretty bad to block this RC going out. There should be a new > > > release > > > along in a week or two and we can address the offender there. > > > > > > The release artifacts may be downloaded from: > > > > > > http://people.apache.org/~stack/hbase-0.95.0RC0/ > > > > > > Let the vote run for a short time, say, April 3rd. Take it for a quick > > > spin. > > > > > > Over 1500 issues have been closed against 0.95.0. It is tough pulling > > out > > > the highlights but I think most will be interested in big improvements > > > in Mean Time To Recovery, a revamped metrics, support for hadoop1 and > > > hadoop2.... the list is long. For the full list of issues fixed see: > > > > > > > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12324094 > > > > > > All feedback is welcome. We'd be interested in getting feedback on > > > everything from the packaging, layout, through documentation, UI, and > of > > > course, > > > any bugs found. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > St.Ack > > >
